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Originally Posted by ernmerica
... I definitely think this is unfair to him because in an article I read recently it said while the crew was searching for Amy at 6am, they went to Yellows cabin and woke him up, because others including the Bradleys suggested he was hanging out with her the night before. That's why the bass player knew.
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The problem with that story is that Alistair Douglas ("Yellow") was questioned by the FBI, after the Bradleys reported this meeting between Brad and Douglas. Douglas denied this encounter and claimed that he knew nothing about Amy having disappeared. How could he not be aware if the cruise line manager was knocking at his cabin door at six o'clock that morning, looking for Amy?
Ron Bradley claimed he awoke at about 6 AM, and when he noticed Amy was missing, searched for his daughter for approximately an hour. When he could not find her, he woke up Iva and they went to the ship’s captain together. How is it that at 6 AM, as Ron awoke, noticed Amy missing, and was getting dressed to go look for her, Douglas already had the cruise line manager looking for Amy
before Ron and Iva reported her missing?
Another factor against Douglas was that two female eyewitnesses reported seeing Douglas and Amy at around 5:45 AM. Amy is believed to have left her cabin between 5:30-6:00 AM. They claimed that Amy and Douglas stepped off an elevator and headed towards the disco. Another female passenger, who had met Amy on the cruise, also reported seeing Amy and Douglas walking up the stairs to the next level, and then ten minutes later, Douglas walking around by himself.
Lastly, the Bradleys were not aware of Douglas as a person of interest until after they had returned to the ship for the second time and two eyewitnesses ran up to them to report what they had seen. This was on the 26th, I believe. It was only after hearing about Douglas that Brad remembered that the former knew about Amy’s disappearance before anyone else did. Only then did Douglas become a suspect, but not before. This is also important because the FBI told the Bradleys that the ship captain never searched the entire ship for Amy; they just searched the common rooms and the rest rooms. Douglas's room, along with his band members' cabins, would not have been searched later on the 24th as he claims, but after the 26th, when the FBI did a "bomb search" on-board for Amy.
It is obvious that Douglas lied then or is lying now. The FBI should have investigated him more thoroughly. They just did not have enough evidence to hold him as a suspect. On the other hand, if Douglas was merely acting as a go-between another party, what evidence could they find if he only lead Amy away and then left her to her fate? No blood and no body almost always equals to the belief that there is no crime. The fact that all of Amy’s pictures from the dinner party on the 23rd went missing from the photo gallery makes me thinks she was chosen and stalked to be abducted. In that case, other people were most certainly involved, and they could possibly have been other band members or crew members.